Ticket-holder



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B. W. BURT. TICKET HOLDER.

No. 558.155. Patented r. 14, 1896.

ANDREW EGRAHAM. PHUYO-LUNO.WASNINGION.D O

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

EDVARD IVM. BURT, OF SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA.

TICKET-HOLDER.

SPEOIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,155, dated April14, 1896. A lication fil d December 3,1895. Serial No. 570,893. (Nomodel.)

. drawings.

The subject of my invention is a ticket holder or clasp having certainfeatures of a useful nature, which I will hereinafter more fullydescribe.

The purpose for which my ticket-holder is designed is to retain theprice and size cards commonly used in retail stores and attached oraffixed to the boxes or cartons containing the goods to be sold. It isnot, however,'intended to confine the use to this especial one, as thereare analogous puposes which will readily suggest themselves.

I will describe my invention with the aid of the accompanying drawings,and then define the matter for which Idesire to claim Letters Patent.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my holder, and Fig. 2 asection thereof on line 2 2. v

1 is the plate of metal, the top portion being bent over and back toform hook 2. At the sides are the turned flanges 3 to retain the card 4,bearing whatever inscription is desired. The central bottom portion ofthe plate 1 has slits 5 cutting out a tongue portion 6, at the free endof which is stamped or otherwise raised an oifset or rentrant flange 7.

In using my holder the card bearing the desired inscription is slippedinto the side flanges 3 till its base rests against the offset 7. Theholder is'now slipped under the cartonlid and hooked over the side orfront of the box. The ticket or card 4 may be removed without disturbingthe holder, sufficient pressure upon the said ticket sufficing to slipit past the projection or oifset 7. If the tongue portion 6 is sprungforward a trifle, it will aid in the successful working of the device.

Having completely described my invention, I wish to claim I 1. Aticket-holder, comprising ahooked plate, side flanges thereon, a slittongue in the base thereof and a projecting oflset in the said tongue,for the purpose and substantially as described.

2. A ticket holder comprising a hooked plate, side flanges thereon, aslit tongue in the base thereof and a projecting ledge on the end ofsaid tongue, for the purpose and substantially as described.

3. A ticket-holder, stamped from metal, comprising a plate with a hookedportion to be bent back, side flanges to be bent forward, and a slittedtongue in said plate at its base, the said tongue having aforwardly-proj ecting portion, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EDWARD WM. BURT.

Witnesses L. 0. BABE, W. H. WHITE.

